Hex Mountain — Tuesday, Jun. 1, 2021

We did this pretty early because we saw the trip reports about it being exposed. Got to the trailhead at 8:30 and were the only car, there were 3 other cars when we left at 1:00. There's room for about 8-10 cars at the TH.

There were arrows pointing the way along the roads when we went up, but when we went down it was clear someone had purposefully messed up every single one. We tried to re set up all of them. I wouldn't rely on them if someone is purposefully ruining them, maybe use Gaia or All Trails or something else to guide you. Gaia did have this trail accurately mapped, and had both the TH at Salmon La Sac Rd and the TH at the end of the Forest Roads/start of trail 1343 listed.

The hike isn't quite as exposed as I expected, it's maybe 30-40% covered and the shade is intermittent all the way until the summit. It is dry, dusty and hot still though.

When you get to the top Gaia shows there being a trail directly up the ridge to the summit but there isn't one. You overshoot the summit a little bit and then backtrack up. It only adds 800ft so there is no need to bushwack, just go a little farther until you see the exposed bare ridge leasing East and there's an obvious trail back left/NW to the summit of Hex.

Trail was slick and dusty coming down, I fell when I was trying to multi task and wasn't using my poles. I would recommend them for the way down.